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FOSS v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 85 C 1394.

640 F.Supp. 1088 (1986)

Richard FOSS, Plaintiff, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, a municipal corporation; Louis Galante, City of Chicago Fire Commissioner; Charles Pounian, Commissioner of Personnel, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

August 1, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Miriam N. Geraghty, Kinoy, Taren, Geraghty & Potter, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

Darka Papushkewych, Victoria J. Sterling, Ass't Corp. Counsels, Chicago, Ill., for defendants.

Claire T. Hartfield, Friedman & Koven, Chicago, Ill., Council for Disability Rights, Inc., filed an amicus curiae brief in opposition to the motion.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

MORAN, District Judge.

The Chicago Fire Department did not allow plaintiff Richard Foss to return to work following a blackout on the job and terminated him when his medical leave expired. Foss alleges that he is fully qualified for his job and so the Department's treatment of him is discrimination because of a handicap, in violation of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. § 794, and the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act...

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